Notices by Techmeme (techmeme@techhub.social), page 5

OpenAI updates its ChatGPT macOS app to encrypt locally stored conversations, after a user discovered that the app was storing chats in plain text (Jay Peters/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/3/24191636/openai-chatgpt-mac-app-conversations-plain-text
http://www.techmeme.com/240703/p23#a240703p23

Japan's government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, after scrapping over 1,000 regulations governing their use (Rocky Swift/Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/japan-declares-victory-effort-end-government-use-floppy-disks-2024-07-03/
http://www.techmeme.com/240703/p22#a240703p22

CDK Global, a software provider to ~15K North American car dealerships, says "substantially all" of its dealers are back online, after two cyberattacks in June (Charles Gorrivan/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-02/cdk-says-substantially-all-car-dealership-systems-back-online-after-hack
http://www.techmeme.com/240703/p10#a240703p10

Microsoft's AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says content on the open web is "freeware" that anyone can copy or use to reproduce, due to the fair use "social contract" (Sean Endicott/Windows Central)

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/ever-put-content-on-the-web-microsoft-says-that-its-okay-for-them-to-steal-it-because-its-freeware
http://www.techmeme.com/240628/p18#a240628p18

ChatGPT and Microsoft's Copilot seemingly drew on conservative misinformation to repeat a false claim about CNN's debate broadcast being on a "1-2 minute delay" (Ben Goggin/NBC News)

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/openai-chatgpt-microsoft-copilot-fallse-claim-presidential-debate-rcna159353
http://www.techmeme.com/240628/p2#a240628p2

Stanford Internet Observatory's former research director details the online rumor mill that led to SIO ending its rapid-response election observation work (Renée DiResta/New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/25/opinion/stanford-disinformation-election-jordan-twitter.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2k0.PapZ.-P2KC6j63xR0&smid=url-share
http://www.techmeme.com/240625/p36#a240625p36

An interview with Open Source Initiative executive director Stefano Maffulli on what makes an AI open source, creating the Open Source AI Definition, and more (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/22/what-does-open-source-ai-mean-anyway/
http://www.techmeme.com/240624/p5#a240624p5

How the Internet Archive plans to defend its digital lending practices as it appeals a US court's 2023 ruling; IA says it was forced to remove over 500K books (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/06/internet-archive-forced-to-remove-500000-books-after-publishers-court-win/
http://www.techmeme.com/240622/p9#a240622p9

In a filing, ByteDance urged a US court to strike down a law that could ban TikTok in the US, recounting lengthy talks that it says the US ended in August 2022 (David Shepardson/Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/legal/tiktok-says-us-ban-is-inevitable-without-court-order-blocking-law-2024-06-20/
http://www.techmeme.com/240620/p34#a240620p34

The restrictions on Kaspersky will stop new sales of its antivirus software in the US from July 20 and bar software updates to US customers after September 29 (Alexandra Alper/Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/technology/biden-ban-us-sales-kaspersky-software-over-ties-russia-source-says-2024-06-20/
http://www.techmeme.com/240620/p29#a240620p29

Meta launches its much-awaited Threads API, letting developer publish posts, fetch content, manage replies, and view analytics, after an API beta in March 2024 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/18/threads-finally-launches-its-api-for-developers/
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p8#a240618p8

Vietnam's state media says three of its five active international undersea internet cables are down, impacting connections with the US, Europe, and Asia (Khanh Vu/Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/three-vietnams-five-undersea-internet-cables-are-down-2024-06-17/
http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p13#a240617p13

US prosecutors charge two men with operating Empire Market, a dark web marketplace for illicit goods and services that did $430M+ in sales between 2018 and 2020 (Jake Bleiberg/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-14/pair-charged-with-running-dark-web-market-for-illicit-goods
http://www.techmeme.com/240614/p14#a240614p14

Microsoft delays Recall to test it with the Windows Insider Program and won't ship it with Copilot+ PCs next week, after saying it would make the feature opt-in (Tom Warren/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/13/24178144/microsoft-windows-ai-recall-feature-delay
http://www.techmeme.com/240613/p34#a240613p34

OpenAI adds retired US Army General Paul Nakasone, who led the NSA and US Cyber Command, to its board of directors and its Safety and Security Committee (Ina Fried/Axios)

https://www.axios.com/2024/06/13/open-ai-security-nakasone-nsa
http://www.techmeme.com/240613/p29#a240613p29

Nintendo drops X support from the Switch via a new firmware update, following Sony and Microsoft doing the same in 2023 after X began charging for API usage (Wesley Yin-Poole/IGN)

https://www.ign.com/articles/nintendo-switch-update-1810-pulls-xtwitter-support-bringing-it-in-line-with-playstation-and-xbox
http://www.techmeme.com/240611/p10#a240611p10

AI search engine Perplexity is republishing parts of stories by Forbes and others, with nearly identical words and inadequate attribution, on its Pages feature (Forbes)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahemerson/2024/06/07/buzzy-ai-search-engine-perplexity-is-directly-ripping-off-content-from-news-outlets/
http://www.techmeme.com/240607/p21#a240607p21

A judge, not a jury, will give the verdict in the antitrust trial about Google's ad business, after Google paid $2.3M to cover US government's monetary damages (Matthew Barakat/Associated Press)

https://apnews.com/article/google-antitrust-jury-trial-bench-virginia-38c478510eccf7c7472ed58f5294a9c5
http://www.techmeme.com/240607/p19#a240607p19

A look at Apple's OpenAI deal, ahead of WWDC; sources say Apple plans to offer AI features as an opt-in service, and is working on LLM-powered robotic devices (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-05/why-is-apple-aapl-teaming-up-with-openai-both-companies-need-each-other
http://www.techmeme.com/240605/p14#a240605p14

Elon Musk says Tesla will likely spend $3B to $4B on Nvidia hardware in 2024 and that half of its formerly noted $10B AI-related capex will be on internal spend (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-likely-spend-3-bln-4-bln-nvidia-hardware-this-year-2024-06-04/
http://www.techmeme.com/240604/p35#a240604p35